Monarch

• 美国总统表示，英国君主同意不应允许德黑兰拥有核武器。 • 提到 Oscar Wilde，致敬 Henry Kissinger，点缀 Charles Dickens，再加上一份 Abraham Lincoln 和 Theodore Roosevelt。大功告成！ • 周二，英国君主动员了一支由历史上杰出白人男性组成的“精英小队”，辅以幽默感和潜意识中的政治博弈，发起了一场旨在绕过 Donald Trump 并直接面向美国国会的魅力攻势。从最后获得的欢呼和长达一分钟的掌声来看，这次软实力的展示取得了极佳效果，“特殊关系”得以延续。

The king faces possibly his most important ever speech and a thin-skinned president, in the shadow of the Sussexes and the Epstein scandal. What could go wrong?On his high-stakes four-day state visit to the US, King Charles will have to walk a diplomatic tightrope as the guest of an erratic Donald Trump against the backdrop of Iran and security concerns after Saturday night’s shooting at the White House correspondents’ dinner.Many challenges lie ahead as he takes up his UK government-decreed task to “reaffirm and renew” bilateral ties amid a worsening “special relationship” on the 250th anniversary of American independence. Continue reading...

The insects covered its largest area since 2018, despite threats from habitat loss, climate crisis and pesticidesThe population of monarch butterflies in Mexico increased 64% this winter, compared with the same period in 2025, offering a glimmer of hope for an insect considered at risk of extinction.The figures, released this week by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Mexico, showed that the area occupied by monarchs expanded to 2.93 hectares (7.24 acres) of forest from 1.79 hectares (4.42 acres) the previous winter, the largest coverage since 2018. Continue reading...